Cash Flow
You know what each row and each column of the cash flow grid shows, and which figures stay the same when you switch between Weekly, Bi-Weekly and Monthly.
The cash flow grid shows, period by period, how much money comes in, how much goes out and what balance results. You use it to see in which periods the production has money and in which periods money is missing.
| Row | What it shows | | ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Income** | The money that comes in during the period, one row per financing source | | **Expenses** | The money that goes out during the period, one row per budget category or group | | **Cash Flow** | The period's income minus its expenses | | **Cumulated cash flow** | The balance after the period, starting from the money in **Before** |
Below the financing sources, **Income** also lists the plan's credit draws and incoming transfers, then **Invoiced taxes**. Below the budget categories or groups, **Expenses** also lists the markups, the credit repayments and outgoing transfers, then **Paid taxes** and **Declared taxes**. **Invoiced taxes** and **Paid taxes** appear only when their total is above zero. **Declared taxes** appears as soon as the plan settles VAT, and its total can be negative. KOSMA shows every amount without decimals. Credit and transfer rows are italic with a grey tint, and tax rows are grey. For the tax rows, see [read the VAT rows](/kb/article/read-the-vat-rows). Which rows **Expenses** lists depends on the budget detail level. See [choose the budget detail level](/kb/article/choose-the-budget-detail-level).
**Income** and **Expenses** are groups, and both are open when you open the plan. A group shows the sum of its rows. To close a group, click  **Income** or  **Expenses**. To open it again, click  **Income** or  **Expenses**.
**Cash Flow** and **Cumulated cash flow** stay at the bottom of the grid while the rows above them scroll. KOSMA shows **Cash Flow** in blue and a negative **Cumulated cash flow** in red. The tax rows belong to **Income** and **Expenses**, so **Cash Flow** includes VAT.
In a period column, an empty cell means that no money moved in that period. A 0 means that money moved and adds up to zero. In **Before** and **After**, a 0 can also mean that the row has no money outside the window. **Cumulated cash flow** starts from the amount in **Before**, or from 0 if no money lies before the window. It shows a balance in every period, and a period without payments repeats the balance of the period before.
From left to right, the grid shows the row names, **Before**, one column per period, **After** and, as the last column, the total, which has no caption. **Before** appears only when the plan has money dated before the plan window, and **After** only when it has money dated after the last period column. When you scroll sideways, the row names and the last column stay in place, and **Before** and **After** scroll with the periods. For what **Before** and **After** contain, see [read the Before and After columns](/kb/article/read-the-balance-rows).
The grid has no header row. Each period's caption stands in the chart above the grid, and so do **Before** and **After**, above those two columns. In **Weekly** and **Bi-Weekly**, a period's caption is the date on which it starts. In **Monthly**, the caption is the month and the year, for example May 26.
Weekly and bi-weekly periods start on the start date of the plan window and last 7 or 14 days. Monthly periods are calendar months. Only the first month is shorter, because it begins on the start date. In the demo project, the plan starts on 17 April, so its first monthly column covers 17 to 30 April.
The last column shows the row over all time: **Before**, every period and **After** together. On **Cumulated cash flow**, the last column shows the balance after the last period.
The period columns cover the plan window. The first time you open a plan, KOSMA sets the window from the first scheduled payment to the day after the last one. A plan without any scheduled payment has no window. Its grid stays empty. To change the window, see [set the plan window](/kb/article/set-the-plan-window).
In the toolbar, choose **Weekly**, **Bi-Weekly** or **Monthly**. KOSMA stores no amount per period. It sorts the same dated payments into the columns you choose. The total in the last column of **Income**, **Expenses** and **Cash Flow** stays the same, because it covers all periods, **Before** and **After**.
KOSMA saves your choice with the plan, so everyone who opens the plan sees the same periods. A new plan starts in **Bi-Weekly**. The demo plan is set to **Weekly**.
You cannot type in any cell of the grid. To change a figure, change it at its source: the amount in the budget, the cost control set or the financing plan, or the cash flow rule that dates it. See [how an amount becomes a period](/kb/article/how-an-amount-becomes-a-period). You change the plan's own credit and transfer rows with **Credits** and **Transfers**. See [add a credit line](/kb/article/add-a-credit-line) and [record a transfer between companies](/kb/article/record-a-transfer-between-companies).
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